MEMOIR 



OF FLORA TEMPLE. 

 HEE PEDIGREE, CH AR AOTERIST I CS, AND PERFORMANCES. 



It was not until this remarkable mare had obtained celebrity, 

 from her extraordinary speed and steadiness, that any efforts 

 were made to ascertain her pedigree or descent. 



On demand, however, being made for information concern- 

 ing her descent, by the editors of "Porter's Spirit of the 

 Times," there was sent to, and published in that paper, probably 

 the most impudent, and at the same time stupidest forgery, sworn 

 to by six individuals, whose name it is not worth the while to 

 publish, which runs as follows ; — 



Madame Temple, the dam of Flora, was foaled the property 

 of Elisha Peck, Esq., of Waterville, Oneida Co., N. Y., in the 

 spring of 1840. Her dam was a small but fleet mare. Madame 

 Temple was sired" — got — ^'•hya spotted Arabian stalHon, 

 brought from Dutchess county, and owned by Horace Terry, 

 Esq." 



So far, probably, this is all true, except as regards the spot- 

 ted Arabian stallion i and thisis, probably, a blunder of ignorant 

 stupidity, not an attempt to deceive ; since we are told a few 

 lines later, that this spotted Arabian stallion^ who is described 

 as a " strong, restless, fast-trotting horse," is said to have been 

 got by a full-blood Arabian stallion, on Long Island — without 

 stating what stallion, or out of what mare. This shows that the 



